Both LifeSiteNews.com and LifeNews.com anticipate a sympathetic
portrayal of Kevorkian in You Don't Know Jack, which may well be.
LifeNews.com points out even Kevorkian likes the film. We can certainly
review it here after it airs Saturday night.
Pro-lifer Lynn Mill's view after screening the movie on April 21 was
that it portrayed him otherwise, telling me, "HBO did a beautiful job
with this. I don't think they glamorized. Him. I think they made him
look like a nut. I did not think he came off looking good. I think he
came off as a pathetic little freak."
So we'll see. Lynn added that while Kevorkian anticipated great public
support and an eventual Supreme Court altercation, he got neither,
which the film depicts.
Well, glory be. I was beyond skeptical that the upcoming HBO movie, You
Don't Know Jack, airing this Saturday night at 9p EST, would portray
him fairly....
The movie, of course, is about the infamous Dr. Death, Jack Kevorkian,
who gained notoriety in the late 80s and throughout the 90s for
promoting and committing physician assisted suicide. Convicted of 2nd
degree homicide in 1999, Kevorkian spent 8 years in prison.
But I anticipated Kevorkian's story in the hands of Hollywood,
particularly in a movie co-starring Susan Sarandon, to glamorize him.
So I was not really interested in watching You Don't Know Jack, even if
Al Pacino played the lead role.
Until today. A little while ago I received an email from MI pro-lifer
Lynn Mills, who many here know gives us many of the inside scoops on MI
late-term abortionist Alberto Hodari.
It turns out Lynn played quite a part in bringing Kevorkian down (who
killed his patients in MI) by good old fashioned pro-life dumpster
diving.
Lynn is positively portrayed in the movie by actress Ana Reeder.
I called Lynn for the backstory. In 1993 as part of a group protesting
Kevorkian, Lynn spotted Kevorkian's drug supplier taking out some
trash. "It was a natural instinct for this pro-life activist to go
dumpster diving," said Lynn.
Lynn found Kevorkian's report on the death of Hugh Gale. She also found
Gale's EKG strip that went from beating to flatline.
Kevorkian wrote in his report that Gale asked twice to have the mask
removed containing the death drugs he was inhaling. Kevorkian complied
the 1st time but not the 2nd. He charted he left the mask in place. In
other words, Kevorkian killed Gale against his will.
Lynn said the movie portrays the death of Hugh Gale as "absolutely
horrible" - realistically, in other words.
Kevorkian whited out that segment of his report and retyped it to sound
better.
The end of the movie shows the actor portraying Oakland Co. Prosecutor
Dick Thompson holding the report up to the light and spotting the
whiteout.
What Lynn found was eventually discarded as evidence, but she played a
part in bringing Kevorkian down nonetheless. And she is portrayed in
the movie as normal, imagine that.
So there is one pro-lifer insider's review of You Don't Know Jack, and
now I'm much more inclined to watch it. Here's a longer trailer...
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